Saturday, January 3, 2015

It's getting boring already

Israel has stopped the transfer of about $125 million dollars of tax money to the Palestinian authority.
This is because of a few rather bizarre unilateral actions done by the Palestinian authority in the last few weeks.
They put a vote in at the security council of the UN that did not even get the nine member approval that would have needed a veto from the US for it not to pass.
They are now going to try to bring up Israel at the international court on the Hague for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Experts have said that the allegations that will be put in front of the court are not the type the court will prosecute readily.
The process would be very drawn out and if it it went forward would take years.
In the meantime the financial backing of the authority will disappear and with it the authority.
The corrupt members of the authority will not be able to fly first class everywhere in the world and hobnob with world leaders while staying at $1,000 a night hotels around the world.
It's all just a cruel sick joke and will help the right wing parties in the upcoming elections.
Most Israelis rally get it.
There is no one to talk to and peace talks are fruitless at best.
The US is also about to cut aid to the authority which will likely make it disintegrate very soon.
Some Arab countries have pledged to help but that seems to be an unlikely occurrence seeing the oil prices in the world plunge.
It is likely that some cooperation will continue with Israel but it is rather unclear what might happen next.
It won't be pretty.

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